New Space Race Continues As China Unveils World’s Largest Telescope

China just escalated its space race against the U.S. Sunday by unveiling the world’s largest radio telescope. China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) took five years and $180 million to complete. It’s bigger than the U.S.’s 300-meter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. China claims its new telescope has double the sensitivity of the Arecibo Observatory and…